Beyond All Weapons - (Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Stories Collection) by L Ron Hubbard (Paperback)

About the Book

Pilot Pete England used to think there was nothing more exciting than flying off into the wild blue yonder. But lately it's been downright dull. Pete's hungry for adventure--and he's about to get his fill when a princess boards his plane. She's at the center of some international intrigue ... and now a mysterious plane is on their tail, bent on shooting them out of the sky. But that's the least of Pete's concerns.

Book Synopsis

Han Solo of Star Wars could learn a thing or two from Firsten Guide, the tough, wise-cracking rebel leader who's light years ahead of his time--and about to lead his crew into a battle that's Beyond All Weapons. Because the force is most assuredly with Firsten.

He and his fellow colonizers of Mars have faced a brutal crackdown engineered by Earth's tyrannical government. But the resourceful Firsten has developed an extraordinary new fuel that enables him and his hardy band to escape into space--and time.

Escape, however, is not enough. Firsten wants revenge. But the universe is full of unexpected twists and turns. Just as Prometheus flew too close to the sun, Firsten will soon discover that when you break the laws of physics, you can get burned.

Hubbard was a pioneer in his use and development of Einstein's theories of space and time as a plot point in his fiction. In Beyond All Weapons, he explains: "As mass approaches the speed of light ... it approaches infinity. And, as mass approaches infinity, time approaches zero. It was only nine days back from Alpha. But in those nine days, six thousand years have passed by Earth." It stands as one of the earliest--and most succinct--descriptions of the theory.

Also includes the science fiction adventures Strain, the story of a space war's brutality and one man's struggle to keep a secret under the pain of torture, and The Invaders, in which the distant crystal mines are under attack until a technician crystallizes a unique strategy to undermine the attackers.

"A thrilling space adventure ... the terror and excitement builds through to the end." --Publishers Weekly

Review Quotes

" this is a real corker, pulp fiction at its most entertaining." Booklist
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..". this is a real corker, pulp fiction at its most entertaining." --Booklist


.".. this is a real corker, pulp fiction at its most entertaining." --Booklist

About the Author

As one of the 20 top bestselling authors of all time, with more than 325 million works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard stands alongside an illustrious company of writers. But he also stands alone as an author who actually lived many of the stories he wrote."